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by dpark 10mo ago
Yes but also > this is a textbook case of a "Failed Pivot" driven by investors It was a rejected suggestion. In no way did this actually cause the deal to fail.
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by dpark 10mo ago
1. Pop up demanding I make a choice about their cookies. 2. Pop up telling me my adblocker is bad and I should feel bad. 3. Pop up suggesting I join their club/newsletter/whatever. Every. fucking. site. The newsletter one is espec
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by dpark 10mo ago
I was responding to your implied advice to burn media onto DVDs for long term storage. I never asked for any solution. It seems like your intent here was just to be condescending and rude.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> Sounds like your publisher was trying to just take your work and sell it. Giving you the least amount you’ll agree to. That’s literally what a publisher does.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Where is the part where they forced a pivot? They asked for AI. He said no.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> the author didn’t make time to write the book and then lost interest That was my read as well. The book deal fell apart because the author never wrote most of the book.
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by dpark 10mo ago
That’s probably mostly true. Grouping ethnicities into labels that are useful seems like a difficult problem. Especially as risk factors can be both generic and cultural.
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by dpark 10mo ago
I don’t know anything about the “Pacific Islander lobby” but it’s not relevant here. The sentence here is clearly just not using the Oxford comma. Only the summary for journalists uses this construction. The actual abstract does not. This p
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by dpark 10mo ago
This is just the lack of an Oxford comma. “Asian” and “Pacific Islander” are separate groups in the data list further down.
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by dpark 10mo ago
What does that mean? Alopecia is the general term for hair loss.
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by dpark 10mo ago
This isn’t the whole story. Many people have follicles that are dormant. Many people have success regrowing hair on bald spots with minoxidil and/or finasteride. If you look like Sir Patrick Stewart, yeah, that’s not growing back. A ba
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by dpark 10mo ago
Writable DVD longevity seems to be a bit of a crapshoot. There are stories of people reading 20 year old burned DVDs just fine and others getting errors on discs only a few years old. If I were worried about longevity, I would not personall
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by dpark 10mo ago
South Park even made fun of the standard “reset” with the Kenny death gag.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> Major structural changes get restored at the end This is the point. There persistent changes in these shows tended to be very minor. Nothing big ever happened that wasn’t fully resolved by the time the credits rolled unless it was a 2-
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by dpark 10mo ago
Most shows were like that. Yes, there was some minor character growth and minor plot development over seasons most shows basically reset every episode. You almost have to when you’re targeting syndication because reruns don’t always happen
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by dpark 10mo ago
I remember Deep Space 9 having big story arcs was very novel.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Do they actually make OLEDs? I haven’t bought a tv in quite a while but last I looked dumb OLED TVs didn’t exist.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Pedantry is rarely a good look. But intentionally misreading intent barely even qualifies as pedantry. I like to imagine that people this ridiculous get into fist fights on the street constantly. Normal person: “My wife is the absolute best
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by dpark 10mo ago
If you saw an article titled “My Nana is the nicest person you could possibly meet”, would you interpret that to be a statement that your own grandmother is considerably less nice?
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by dpark 10mo ago
Agree. A fresh grad is still measured on “impact” but that impact is generally localized. e.g. Quality of individual code and design vs ability to wrangle others to work with you. Impact is a handwavy way of saying “is your work good for th
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by dpark 10mo ago
For software engineering, “impact” or “value delivered” are pretty much always your job unless you work somewhere really dysfunctional that’s measuring lines of code or some other nonsense. But that does become a lot about politics after so
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by dpark 10mo ago
Politicking is just group dynamics. In large companies people engage in politics because it becomes necessary to accomplish large things. Of course a group can also have bad actors but that’s not really an issue with politics specifically.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Millennial. But I was thinking less about my own childhood and more about never treating my kids or (with the one exception) hearing of friends treat theirs. > ringworms Typo? Ringworm is fungal despite the name.
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by dpark 10mo ago
That’s interesting, thanks. Looks like it’s 11%-ish in the US which is lower than the other cited countries but still more common than I would have guessed.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Are there areas in the developed world where this is common? I’ve never heard of anyone regularly taking anti parasitic medication because their kids kept bringing home parasites from daycare. I had a friend whose son was prescribed medicin
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by dpark 10mo ago
Do people usually run Mongo in a mode that allows unauthenticated calls? I don’t know anything about Mongo. This just seems surprising.
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by dpark 10mo ago
When I see bad faith arguments like this I earnestly worry that maybe sometimes I do the same and just don’t recognize it. Did you read my comment about the cost of laying fiber being far different from the cost of digging truck-sized tunne
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by dpark 10mo ago
People invoke the tragedy of the commons in bad faith to argue for privatization because “the alternative is communism”. i.e. Either an individual or the government has to own the resource. This is of course a false dichotomy because govern
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by dpark 10mo ago
She not “disprove” the existence of the tragedy of the commons. What she established was that controlling the commons can be done communally rather than through privatization or through government ownership. Communal management of a resourc
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by dpark 10mo ago
I wonder how many miles of fiber would have been laid if fiber required a tunnel big enough to drive a delivery truck through.

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